Geography
This River is where the Aryans settled and where Hinduism began.
What is the Indus River?
A rigid social class system given to people of Hinduism by birth.
What is The Caste System?
These men accompanied Siddhartha Gautama in his search for an answer to universal suffering.
Who are the 5 Ascetics.
The sheer wealth and power of the rajas of the Mauryan Empire attracted this young Greek general.
Who is Alexander The Great?
Was considered the most powerful emperor of the Gupta empire, his rule spanned from 375 to 415 C.E.
Who is Chandragupta the Second?
This River is the most sacred to the Hindu religion and is the personification of the goddess Ganga.
What is the Ganges River?
This Social class in The Caste System is made up of kings, rulers, and warriors.
What are Kshatriyas?
A sacred text that was made up of the teachings of the Buddha.
What is the Tripitaka, or the Three baskets of wisdom?
This low-caste soldier led a rebellion around 323 B.C.E. drive Greek invaders out of India and eventually became the ruler of the Mauryan Empire
Who is Chandragupta Maura?
Emperors used this religion for unifying purposes and helped promote it using educational systems that included it's teachings.
What is Hinduism?
This mountain range protected India from invaders and provided melted water to the plains below it.
What are the Himalayas?
These hymns and rituals written in Sanskrit are sacred texts of Hinduism
What are the Vedas?
This man was the founder of Buddhism and found the answer to universal suffering
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
The grandson of Chandragupta, killed his other brothers and sisters to seize control of the empire after the death of his father.
Who is Ashoka?
They made sure to give land to this specific class in the Caste System of Hinduism.
What are the Brahmins?
This desert is located in the North-West of India and is the 18th largest desert in the world.
What is the Thar Desert?
Hinduism is considered to be a ______ religion.
What is a Monotheistic Religion?
This is the goal that all Buddhists want to achieve after death.
What is Nirvana?
Ashoka attempted to give practical guidance to his subjects by writing edicts on rocks and pillars for all to see.
What are the rock and pillars edicts?
The Gupta Empire were responsible for creating a symbol that denotes this number.
What is the number Zero?
These seasonal winds were important for trans-continental trade with Africa and were located in the Indian Ocean.
What are the Monsoons?
The sum of a person's good or bad actions they've made in their life.
What is Karma?
This path is considered the path of enlightenment and is in between extreme self-discipline and comfort.
What is the Middle Way?
Out of remorse for the many soldiers that died fighting the kingdom of Kalinga, he gave himself and his kingdom a spiritual transformation and resorted to this religion.
What is Buddhism?
During the Gupta period, scholars advanced in _____ with introducing negative numbers, decimal points, Arabic numerals and the value of pi.
What is Mathematics?